Sourdough Discard Pizza Crust

Sometimes during this past week, I saw this recipe for Sourdough Discard Pizza Crust. I thought about making it but wasn't sure. 

Kinda hopping off subject here . . but Vince detests G.E. appliances. I had never cared what kind of appliances we bought until we bought this house in 2020. I read and researched and the stove I wanted was the G.E. Cafe gas stove. That took a lot of convincing but he agreed to it and since the G.E. white didn't match the old Kenmore white, we replaced all the kitchen appliances. They were 17 years old so I didn't feel like we were being extravagant to replace them. Other than the issues with the fridge, which were enough to make me feel the same way about G.E. that Vince felt, everything has been fine and I could not love my stove more so I'll say I'm 85% happy with G.E. but we will never buy the brand again. We did get a new fridge after 6 months of them trying to repair our totally non-working kitchen fridge.

We have several upright freezers. We still have one we bought in 2006 and it works fine. We brought one from Texas with us that we had purchased in about 2017 and it still works fine. Then, because we have access to buying a whole cow and a whole pig, we ended up buying two more freezers. It was probably still during the time when it was hard to get appliances (is it still?) and Vince bought two G.E. freezers. My dislike for those freezers is why I have joined Vince in committing to never buy anything with that brand again.

The shelves are so flimsy, if you put a frozen turkey or a ham on the shelves, they will bend and collapse and then I open a freezer and a frozen turkey or ham comes tumbling out onto my foot. It's happened enough that I have learned to stand way back when opening either one of those freezers. I've had upright freezers for 40+ years and have never had one with such flimsy shelves. Vince called G.E. and they offered to send him new shelves for about $100 each and we needed 8 shelves. Vince asked if they had improved the shelves. Nope, same shelves we have. Why would we pay $800+ for the shelves that aren't working.

I kept telling Vince . . I know you can figure out a way to fix this and yesterday, for about the 100th time, I wasn't paying attention, opened the freezer and one of the shelves, which did not have a turkey or a ham on it, dumped everything into the floor . . and my foot!

The biggest problem is not so much that the shelves are flimsy but they are about 1/2" too narrow and don't really fit into the little edges that they are supposed to rest on. Even the shelves that aren't bent, if they're all the way against the wall of the freezer on one side, they fall off on the other side. It's a ridiculous design.

I went straight to YouTube and found quite a few videos with fixes. Obviously, we are not the only ones having the problem. The fix that looked the easiest and quickest to me was where a guy had a hose - something left over from a kit for changing the transmission fluid in his car. Vince was gone and when he got home, I showed it to him. This morning, he went to Atwoods but what they had wasn't thick enough. He had to go down to a hardware store and found a thick walled hose, cut it into about 3" strips, split it lengthwise so it would fit over the edge of the shelves and now it's a perfect fit. I don't think there's any way these shelves are going to fall now, even if they bend a little.

OK . . back to the pizza. I had planned to make stuffed peppers for dinner today but after totally unloading two freezers, adding the hoses to the shelves, re-loading everything, I was tired and I remembered the pizza recipe using sourdough discard. I was apprehensive but too tired to care. I told Vince . . I'm going to try this recipe and if it doesn't work, we'll go pickup a pizza.

Vince doesn't like onions and jalapeno peppers so the little one is mine.

This is the easiest recipe ever! From start to finish, I had the pizza on the table in less than half an hour. I may never make a real pizza crust again.

If you click on the link to the recipe, she has a video. So glad I tried this recipe!